Mentions in Galleries West

In what is believed to be the first agreement in Canada between a university and a city-owned art museum, University of Saskatchewan President Peter Stoicheff and Remai Modern Executive Director and CEO Gregory Burke will sign an historic partnership

With the new gallery scheduled to open October 21, Remai Modern announces a new web commission, "Passwords for Time Travel," by Raqs Media Collective. The project will be featured on the museum’s website from July 1-31.

Canada’s museum of modern art, Remai Modern, will open to the public October 21, 2017 in Saskatoon. The launch aligns with the international trend of world-class museums opening in unexpected destinations.

Remai Modern has announced a new web commission, "Pretty Girl,"by Duane Linklater for May 1-31, 2017. Linklater’s project is based on a YouTube video of a 1991 performance of “Pretty Girl,” a James Bay rock classic, by John Rodrique and his band.

Remai Modern has announced the debut of Unprocessed in States (part 2) by renowned Berlin-based artist Rosa Barba. The new video piece is composed of footage gathered during the first phase of Barba’s web commission for Remai Modern.

Remai Modern has received a major corporate gift of $400,000 from TD Bank Group, supporting free programming for five years in the Greg & Olivia Yuel Family Gallery, on the main floor of the museum. Remai Modern is to open in 2017.

CCSF supports the improvement of physical conditions for artistic creativity and innovation through the improvement, renovation and construction of arts and heritage facilities, as well as the acquisition of specialized equipment.

Remai Modern announces its latest web commission, Unprocessed in States, 2017, by internationally renowned artist Rosa Barba. The project will be featured on the museum’s website from January 1 to 31, 2017.

Remai Modern announces its latest web commission, Currency, Currency, by internationally acclaimed Portuguese artist Pedro Barateiro. The project will be featured on the museum’s home page for the month of November.

Remai Modern is very pleased to announce its third web commission — by Tanya Lukin Linklater. The August 1–31 project is curated by Gregory Burke, Remai Modern Executive Director & CEO, and Sandra Guimarães, Director of Programs & Chief Curator.

The news of Bouthillier’s selection as Curator (Exhibitions) follows the recent appointment of Portuguese curator Sandra Guimarães as Director Programs / Chief Curator for Remai Modern. She joined the gallery in August.

Woven carpets documenting social and cultural upheaval in Afghanistan are the focus of Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan. With work from the end of the 20th century, the exhibition considers the role of creative practice in global affairs.

Philanthropist and European printmaking specialist Frederick Mulder recently announced, on behalf of the U.K.-based Frederick Mulder Foundation, the gift of an important collection of ceramics, made by Pablo Picasso, to the Remai Modern Art Gallery.

Drawing can and often does incorporate just about any medium. It can be so many things: shiny reflective material (Ed Pien’s "Invisible"); holographic foil (Sandy Plotnikoff); or ‘traditional’ watercolour and coloured pencil (Tristram Lansdowne).

The Mendel Art Gallery is delighted to announce a major addition to its collection. BMO Financial Group will be gifting a sculpture from one of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Kim Adams, entitled "Love Birds".

The Board of Trustees of the Mendel Art Gallery, and the future Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan, is pleased to announce the appointment of Gregory Burke as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer.

Things that were, could be and are yet to be shimmer like architectural blueprints drawn in silverpoint. Alison Norlen’s wire sculptures of bridges, boardwalks, expo pavilions and amusement-park rides form a maze of shifting scale.

This fall, Bill Burns, artist and CEO of “Safety Gear for Small Animals”, invites gallery visitors to create and broadcast "Bird Radio," the sounds of 17 birds endemic to the regions of Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, and Canada.

Tucked away in the inner chamber of the Mendel Art Gallery is an illuminating exhibition by Saskatoon-based artist, Michèle Mackasey. The show, face à nous, is a poignant portrayal of the bonds shared by single mothers and their children.

It’s not every day that a public gallery is actually serenaded by art fans, but attendees of the opening event for the Mendel Gallery’s "Under Skirt: will be presented with four original songs performed by the Lethbridge-based Cedar Tavern Singers.

Louise Bourgeois’ famous bronze sculpture "The Arch of Hysteria" is the psychic centerpiece of a clever show developed by National Gallery of Canada curator Josée Drouin-Brisebois called "Hysteria and the Body."

Influenced by Joseph Beuys, the American “bad painting” movement, punk rock and popular culture, tattoos, advertising, trash aesthetic, and more, Bouthillette has created a mischievous and irreverent phantasmagoria of sights and sounds.